Knowledge-Driven Governance: The Role of Experts and Scholars in Combating Desertification and Other Dilemmas of Collective Action [Hardcover]

This book explores a new model for addressing the central issue of environmental and other collective actions. An alternative to the classical models: central authority, privatization, and self-governance, it has provisionally been named expert and scholar-based- or knowledge-driven governance. The book also identifies seven working rules (or design principles) for successful knowledge-driven governance, and argues that the more strictly these rules are abided by, the more successful this model of governance becomes. Lastly, it demonstrates that in addition to Lindbloms observed intellectually guided society and preference-guided/volition-guided society, there may be the possibility of a knowledge-driven society in which knowledge or intellect plays a greater role. The results obtained are supplemented by numerical calculations, presented as tables and figures.

This book is intended for graduate students, lecturers and researchers working in environmental management, environmental science and engineering, sustainable development, collective action, and public administration.

Scholar-Participated Governance as an Alternative Solution to the Collective Action Dilemma.- Four Major Roles of Scholars Participation: A Game Theoretical Analysis.- A Product-Institutional Analysis (PIA) Framework.- Significance and Mechanisms of Scholars Participation.- Seven Design Principles of Successful Scholar-Participated Governance.- Institutional Performance, Institutional Change, and Building an Intellect-Driven Society.- Building an Intellect-Driven Society: A Third Model.Lihua Yang is a professor in the School of Government at Peking University, and a professor in the School of Public Administration and Director of the Workshop for Environmental Governance and Sustainability Science at Beihang University. He graduated from Peking University (1995-2002) and Indiana University (2004-2006) with two bachelor degrees and two master dl#*